Does anyone have a link to one of the hardware sites which visited Shuttle? (I can't remember if it was TomsHardware or Anandtech, but I've looked on both), they we're shown the new range of cases that are going to be released... especially the multicoloured ones.
I was hunting for this link the other day, trying to convince my brother to get one of the newer cases (whenever they surface of course).
I wholeheartedly hear you here. I started my Industrial Placement (internship) in the middle of 1999, in a nice quiet Suffolk town. I didn't have a phone or TV (but plenty more game playing time!) and I completely missed all the preview info and the general release of The Matrix.
I ended up watching it when my family came to visit us for xmas, and watched the DVD on my sister-in-laws laptop at 2am... not only was I completely drawn into the story, it is one of the best films I have ever seem purely because I knew NOTHING about the film at all. I remember watching the Trinity chase at the beginning, and not even knowing who were the good or bad guys.
The Matrix has a special place in my heart, not only because it was my first unspoiled film... but it reminded me of the first time I became engrossed in a book, when you completely forget what is going on in the outside world (it was R. Dahl and "The Witches", when I was 9). No other film has never done that to me, and not spoiling myself helped a great deal.
Pity I'm too much of a spoiler freak concerning Star Trek, but you can't win them all I suppose.
AFAIK SuSE is very popular in Europe, wheras RedHat is more popular in the US (than SuSE).
Although I do laugh at Lindows, I subscribed to their mailshot on one of my e-mail accounts... and the amount of "Michael's Minute" messages that come through is astounding (the message subject is prepended with the word "{SPAM ?}" by the mail server). I gave up reading them long ago... talk about an evangelical salesman!.
Glad I got some support, I don't bother giving unkind AC's a response. It's funny that I watch the ep for the first time a couple of days ago, and be such a retard for having a good memory! (as well as having the episode at hand to transcribe the correct line).
I'm glad you put the "of EXT3 fame" bit, I was worried the article might be talking about the infamous author.
Although he might end up on the front page of/. if he writes an unauthorized biography of Mr. Gates, what kind of juice could be dragged up from the past... I wonder?
Ron Moore was one of the main guys to then go onto Voyager from DS9 (he did Q&A sessions available on TrekWeb).
He went over to try and sort some of the problems out (i.e. continuity reset button, more fluid story arc, etc), but ended up leaving because he couldn't work with people who just didn't give a shit about trying to make the series better anymore (i.e. the writers).
Although I don't have a link of where he gave his reasons for leaving, but it's out there... somewhere (a bit like my desire for watching Enterprise, it has completely disappeared).
When doing my internship a friend at work recommended IBM drives, mainly on the principle that they had the best record for reliability. I have been buying IBM drives for years now (apart from a nice quiet Maxtor) with now problems whatsoever.
But about two years ago, my uni housemate got an IBM DeskStar drive which died on him after 3 weeks from getting it. Turns out he got the drive where they had the glass platters, and the heads on the drive literally crashed and cracked the platters. He had all his Uni work on there, although we kept yelling the work 'backup' to him. I don't know how many of these drives had this problem, but IBM pulled the drives as soon as they found out about the problem.
I bet Stewie the baby would have loved this simulation...
If only he didn't try knocking his Mum down the stairs on the day that Death was incapacitated due to a twisted ankle. Although sawing the leg off the Armoir (making it fall on top of her) and the grenade to finish things off would have been another simulation in itself!
I've spent this evening trying to sort out why the router goes belly-up after using eDonkey for a while. The problem started a week ago, but since then the occurences were more regular. I just upgraded the firmware an hour ago!!!
I have the BEFSR411 and found a decent forum link with the same problem... and there is another link of info/problems here.
I suppose it goes without saying that updating the firmware is a good idea... at least there are more improvements to the web-config interface. I'll just have to see how long the connection stays up.
OK, first off there is a little knack to searching on eDonkey. You first have to make sure that your firewall will accept connections through ports 4662-4663 (and forwarding to the machine running the donkey)... most of this info is on the eDonkey site.
When it is up and running, you can do a search when you are connected to a server (a good idea is to get an updated serverlist, one of the places I go to is The Donkey Network). If there aren't any of the files there, then click the 'Extend Search' button that pops up to the left of the search button... to do more searches, click the button then press and hold down the enter key for less than a second, do more short bursts to let any server search results get through.
A lot of the files will be dependant on what people are sharing, and the more blue the colour, the more people have the same file. A great place I've recently found that lists certain Sci-Fi files is Varelse's Sharepool, and another site for other links is ShareReactor.
A lot of the server work (updating lists, etc) has been automated in Overnet, but I haven't been using it at all yet. As I said in the first post, it takes a little more work to learn eDonkey, but I've found the quality of files that are being shared far superior to the FastTrack network (esp. for very large files). There are times that I can't find stuff on the Donkey network, so Kazaa still comes in handy.
That was one of the best advertising campaigns ever... i.e. shopper goes into a store and asks to see the range of 'Hoovers' on offer rather than 'Vacuum Cleaners'.
Ever since Mr. Dyson got rejected (when designing the Dyson) by Hoover, and then when he was successful (Hoover and other companies 'magically' come up with thier own cyclone system) with the Dyson, he bans anyone using the term 'Hoovering' in his presense... who can blame him!
Although I've tried changing the term Hoovering to Dysoning when I help my parents when cleaning the Pub, which hasn't caught on too well... but we've had ours for four years and it is still going strong, the replacement parts we needed were the handle and the bumper (which got too many bumps). When they sent us a warranty renewal form, they still grant us the ability to get a new one if our one needs replacing!
Wow, to think this thread started off on the TiVO subject. I wouldn't have thought us geeks could be so interested in vacuum cleaners... but we need to reiterate just how strong the suction is on these modern cleaners, just in case any cheap thrill ideas (think Austin Powers and his 'personal' collection) turn out to become below waist lipo(and sausage) suction jobs! Careful now!
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Ever since I've been using Broadband (Optimum Online yeah baby!), eDonkey has won me over vs. Kazaa(lite).
Alhough eDonkey needs a little more work than Kazaa to operate, the file hashing/segmented downloads/no leeching is far better than Kazaa, plus the amount of file corruptions I get using Kazaa is way too much (especially with very large files). I've also started trying Overnet, but still have loads of downloads I'm clearing through the Donkey (Yes I have tried using the donkey downloads for Overnet, but only half register in the download tab).
I've tried using Gnutella/Gnucleus on numerous occasions, bit given up due to a lack of being able to do anything with it compared to the other P2P programs... I just hope Gnutella2 will become a viable option for me to use it.
I got back to my brothers house in CT last week... and while at Heathrow Duty Free, the bookstore had the Butlerian Jihad on sale. I couldn't believe it (because I thought that House Corrino would be the end of the Dune writing saga, just shows how up to date I am).
My gripe is is that I didn't get the book at the Airport (because I'd already maxxed out on hand luggage with presents).. and I thought I'd get it in that US cheaper. Well the book was the paperback version at the airport (10.99pounds), but the book is the hardback version in Barnes and Noble (at $27.99).
Obviously I'm being a bit tight fisted with my money, but I've not been a fan of hardbacks.. does anybody know when the paperback is coming out? Either way, I'm really looking forward to the Jihad, the Herbert/Anderson combo did a great job with the prelude trilogy.. just wondering when SciFi (or anyone else) will get to doing the TV Movie versions of these (haven't they done Children of Dune yet?).
IIRC isn't this a property of Light Emitting Polymers? At least not the first incarnations, or the later revisions in that a charge is only needed to change the polymer state... so more power is used when viewing a constantly changing images (i.e. multimedia), whereas spreadsheet/office use would be on the lower end of the power scale.
Although it is only a week old, the site already has received more than 5,000 hits.
Was the article accepted to be put on slashdot just to up those number of hits a bit more??
which would take up about 99 CD-ROMS' worth of computer memory
Hmm, I hope they don't send the archives using 99 CD's worth... we all know what an environmentally friendly company AOL is with their set of coasters.;)
Apparently, it is in part due to Richard Dean Anderson... he is relocating to LA to be back with his family (a bit like Anthony Head (Giles in Buffy) returning to England for over a year. But he might rough it and do a hotel stint for the 7th season (if it does go ahead).
A great Stargate site to go to is Gateworld, not only for nes and tidbits, but is great for episode info... etc.
I sincerely hope that Stargate does get renewed for a seventh season, and that the possible post series feature film (that might deal with finishing off the Goa'uld) as well as Stargate: Atlantis, we are certainly getting a great amount of Science Fiction viewing.
The Enterprise production team seriously ought to look at Farscape and SG1, because they are way superior to what recycled crap they are coming out with... the only good new thing going for Trek is the soon to be released Nemesis.
Recently got a Belnea (Euro only I think?) 10 15 37 for my parents new workstation (for behind the Bar, when it gets quiet the computer comes in handy), and it is great... especially with the limited surface space we have. The original version of this monitor was reviewed on Toms Hardware, but the casing was cheap and nasty. Fortunately they heeded the reviews and there have been two revisions of the monitor, for a great price of £255 ex vat,
I did try the monitor with Unreal 2003, but the ghosting started making me feel sick after 10 minutes of play... but I'm not the primary user, and the only games played on it by my parents usually involve cards (as well as internet and e-mails)!
A few weeks ago, the laptop I gave to my parents packed up (well the win98 installation gave up)... and my Dad; the definate 'luddite' who doesn't like stuff he doesn't understand, had gotten used to the laptop mousepad.
I caught him trying to use another workstation I had set up, and he was stood there moving the mouse through the air, then followed by shaking it violently (while cursing under his breath that is wasn't working) and then he found the ball at the bottom of the mouse actually moved, and started using his finger to move the ball (and cursor) around... I nearly sh*t myself from laughing. So I guess an airboune mouse might have come in handy.
I've since sorted them another workstation up, and decided a mouse might not have survived.. so I got a thumb-trackball mouse from Logitech, which is great, especially considering you don't need half the room needed for a mouse mat and movement room.
This site is just as much for the web wandering curious techie as it is for a physics student...
..and for the raging hoardes of/. readers who will leave this server with a few 'frustrations and breakthroughs'(or downs) of it's own to contend with.
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Does anyone have a link to one of the hardware sites which visited Shuttle? (I can't remember if it was TomsHardware or Anandtech, but I've looked on both), they we're shown the new range of cases that are going to be released... especially the multicoloured ones.
I was hunting for this link the other day, trying to convince my brother to get one of the newer cases (whenever they surface of course).
I wholeheartedly hear you here. I started my Industrial Placement (internship) in the middle of 1999, in a nice quiet Suffolk town. I didn't have a phone or TV (but plenty more game playing time!) and I completely missed all the preview info and the general release of The Matrix.
I ended up watching it when my family came to visit us for xmas, and watched the DVD on my sister-in-laws laptop at 2am... not only was I completely drawn into the story, it is one of the best films I have ever seem purely because I knew NOTHING about the film at all. I remember watching the Trinity chase at the beginning, and not even knowing who were the good or bad guys.
The Matrix has a special place in my heart, not only because it was my first unspoiled film... but it reminded me of the first time I became engrossed in a book, when you completely forget what is going on in the outside world (it was R. Dahl and "The Witches", when I was 9). No other film has never done that to me, and not spoiling myself helped a great deal.
Pity I'm too much of a spoiler freak concerning Star Trek, but you can't win them all I suppose.
Like in The Matrix, "Ignorance is bliss".
SuSE not popular?
AFAIK SuSE is very popular in Europe, wheras RedHat is more popular in the US (than SuSE).
Although I do laugh at Lindows, I subscribed to their mailshot on one of my e-mail accounts... and the amount of "Michael's Minute" messages that come through is astounding (the message subject is prepended with the word "{SPAM ?}" by the mail server). I gave up reading them long ago... talk about an evangelical salesman!.
Glad I got some support, I don't bother giving unkind AC's a response. It's funny that I watch the ep for the first time a couple of days ago, and be such a retard for having a good memory! (as well as having the episode at hand to transcribe the correct line).
I'm reminded of an episode of Stargate SG1 (Failsafe) when Anubis sent an asteroid towards Earth.
"O'Neill: I've seen this movie, it hits Paris."
I'm glad you put the "of EXT3 fame" bit, I was worried the article might be talking about the infamous author.
Although he might end up on the front page of /. if he writes an unauthorized biography of Mr. Gates, what kind of juice could be dragged up from the past... I wonder?
Ron Moore was one of the main guys to then go onto Voyager from DS9 (he did Q&A sessions available on TrekWeb).
He went over to try and sort some of the problems out (i.e. continuity reset button, more fluid story arc, etc), but ended up leaving because he couldn't work with people who just didn't give a shit about trying to make the series better anymore (i.e. the writers).
Although I don't have a link of where he gave his reasons for leaving, but it's out there... somewhere (a bit like my desire for watching Enterprise, it has completely disappeared).
When doing my internship a friend at work recommended IBM drives, mainly on the principle that they had the best record for reliability. I have been buying IBM drives for years now (apart from a nice quiet Maxtor) with now problems whatsoever.
But about two years ago, my uni housemate got an IBM DeskStar drive which died on him after 3 weeks from getting it. Turns out he got the drive where they had the glass platters, and the heads on the drive literally crashed and cracked the platters. He had all his Uni work on there, although we kept yelling the work 'backup' to him. I don't know how many of these drives had this problem, but IBM pulled the drives as soon as they found out about the problem.
[joke]
Well it must be because NASA are waiting for the current schlock of Hollywood movies to wrap, so they can hire some of the biggest sound stages ;)
[/joke]
appear more than six times larger and shine some 85 times brighter than it appears now...
Does that mean we can play Holst's "The Planets" 6 times louder and have a valid reason for when the neighbours complain?
I bet Stewie the baby would have loved this simulation...
If only he didn't try knocking his Mum down the stairs on the day that Death was incapacitated due to a twisted ankle. Although sawing the leg off the Armoir (making it fall on top of her) and the grenade to finish things off would have been another simulation in itself!
Wierd or what...
I've spent this evening trying to sort out why the router goes belly-up after using eDonkey for a while. The problem started a week ago, but since then the occurences were more regular. I just upgraded the firmware an hour ago!!!
I have the BEFSR411 and found a decent forum link with the same problem... and there is another link of info/problems here.
I suppose it goes without saying that updating the firmware is a good idea... at least there are more improvements to the web-config interface. I'll just have to see how long the connection stays up.
OK, first off there is a little knack to searching on eDonkey. You first have to make sure that your firewall will accept connections through ports 4662-4663 (and forwarding to the machine running the donkey)... most of this info is on the eDonkey site.
When it is up and running, you can do a search when you are connected to a server (a good idea is to get an updated serverlist, one of the places I go to is The Donkey Network). If there aren't any of the files there, then click the 'Extend Search' button that pops up to the left of the search button... to do more searches, click the button then press and hold down the enter key for less than a second, do more short bursts to let any server search results get through.
A lot of the files will be dependant on what people are sharing, and the more blue the colour, the more people have the same file. A great place I've recently found that lists certain Sci-Fi files is Varelse's Sharepool, and another site for other links is ShareReactor.
A lot of the server work (updating lists, etc) has been automated in Overnet, but I haven't been using it at all yet. As I said in the first post, it takes a little more work to learn eDonkey, but I've found the quality of files that are being shared far superior to the FastTrack network (esp. for very large files). There are times that I can't find stuff on the Donkey network, so Kazaa still comes in handy.
That was one of the best advertising campaigns ever... i.e. shopper goes into a store and asks to see the range of 'Hoovers' on offer rather than 'Vacuum Cleaners'.
Ever since Mr. Dyson got rejected (when designing the Dyson) by Hoover, and then when he was successful (Hoover and other companies 'magically' come up with thier own cyclone system) with the Dyson, he bans anyone using the term 'Hoovering' in his presense... who can blame him!
Although I've tried changing the term Hoovering to Dysoning when I help my parents when cleaning the Pub, which hasn't caught on too well... but we've had ours for four years and it is still going strong, the replacement parts we needed were the handle and the bumper (which got too many bumps). When they sent us a warranty renewal form, they still grant us the ability to get a new one if our one needs replacing!
Wow, to think this thread started off on the TiVO subject. I wouldn't have thought us geeks could be so interested in vacuum cleaners... but we need to reiterate just how strong the suction is on these modern cleaners, just in case any cheap thrill ideas (think Austin Powers and his 'personal' collection) turn out to become below waist lipo(and sausage) suction jobs! Careful now!
Ever since I've been using Broadband (Optimum Online yeah baby!), eDonkey has won me over vs. Kazaa(lite).
Alhough eDonkey needs a little more work than Kazaa to operate, the file hashing/segmented downloads/no leeching is far better than Kazaa, plus the amount of file corruptions I get using Kazaa is way too much (especially with very large files). I've also started trying Overnet, but still have loads of downloads I'm clearing through the Donkey (Yes I have tried using the donkey downloads for Overnet, but only half register in the download tab).
I've tried using Gnutella/Gnucleus on numerous occasions, bit given up due to a lack of being able to do anything with it compared to the other P2P programs... I just hope Gnutella2 will become a viable option for me to use it.
We shalt bow down to the almighty Google (unless we're a stupid company with a suit against it)...
The Google search, and some of the Google results Like this, and this one.
Although I'm still trying to find the actual strip image... DOH!, I underestimated the almighty Google and it's 'images' search!! Here is the image.
I got back to my brothers house in CT last week... and while at Heathrow Duty Free, the bookstore had the Butlerian Jihad on sale. I couldn't believe it (because I thought that House Corrino would be the end of the Dune writing saga, just shows how up to date I am).
My gripe is is that I didn't get the book at the Airport (because I'd already maxxed out on hand luggage with presents).. and I thought I'd get it in that US cheaper. Well the book was the paperback version at the airport (10.99pounds), but the book is the hardback version in Barnes and Noble (at $27.99).
Obviously I'm being a bit tight fisted with my money, but I've not been a fan of hardbacks.. does anybody know when the paperback is coming out? Either way, I'm really looking forward to the Jihad, the Herbert/Anderson combo did a great job with the prelude trilogy.. just wondering when SciFi (or anyone else) will get to doing the TV Movie versions of these (haven't they done Children of Dune yet?).
IIRC isn't this a property of Light Emitting Polymers? At least not the first incarnations, or the later revisions in that a charge is only needed to change the polymer state... so more power is used when viewing a constantly changing images (i.e. multimedia), whereas spreadsheet/office use would be on the lower end of the power scale.
Wasn't that the Laptop that Dilbert requisitioned for his clueless boss? ;)
Although it is only a week old, the site already has received more than 5,000 hits.
Was the article accepted to be put on slashdot just to up those number of hits a bit more??
which would take up about 99 CD-ROMS' worth of computer memory
Hmm, I hope they don't send the archives using 99 CD's worth... we all know what an environmentally friendly company AOL is with their set of coasters. ;)
Apparently, it is in part due to Richard Dean Anderson... he is relocating to LA to be back with his family (a bit like Anthony Head (Giles in Buffy) returning to England for over a year. But he might rough it and do a hotel stint for the 7th season (if it does go ahead).
A great Stargate site to go to is Gateworld, not only for nes and tidbits, but is great for episode info... etc.
I sincerely hope that Stargate does get renewed for a seventh season, and that the possible post series feature film (that might deal with finishing off the Goa'uld) as well as Stargate: Atlantis, we are certainly getting a great amount of Science Fiction viewing.
The Enterprise production team seriously ought to look at Farscape and SG1, because they are way superior to what recycled crap they are coming out with... the only good new thing going for Trek is the soon to be released Nemesis.
Recently got a Belnea (Euro only I think?) 10 15 37 for my parents new workstation (for behind the Bar, when it gets quiet the computer comes in handy), and it is great... especially with the limited surface space we have. The original version of this monitor was reviewed on Toms Hardware, but the casing was cheap and nasty. Fortunately they heeded the reviews and there have been two revisions of the monitor, for a great price of £255 ex vat,
I did try the monitor with Unreal 2003, but the ghosting started making me feel sick after 10 minutes of play... but I'm not the primary user, and the only games played on it by my parents usually involve cards (as well as internet and e-mails)!
A few weeks ago, the laptop I gave to my parents packed up (well the win98 installation gave up)... and my Dad; the definate 'luddite' who doesn't like stuff he doesn't understand, had gotten used to the laptop mousepad.
I caught him trying to use another workstation I had set up, and he was stood there moving the mouse through the air, then followed by shaking it violently (while cursing under his breath that is wasn't working) and then he found the ball at the bottom of the mouse actually moved, and started using his finger to move the ball (and cursor) around... I nearly sh*t myself from laughing. So I guess an airboune mouse might have come in handy.
I've since sorted them another workstation up, and decided a mouse might not have survived.. so I got a thumb-trackball mouse from Logitech, which is great, especially considering you don't need half the room needed for a mouse mat and movement room.
This site is just as much for the web wandering curious techie as it is for a physics student...
..and for the raging hoardes of /. readers who will leave this server with a few 'frustrations and breakthroughs'(or downs) of it's own to contend with.
Code-named ``Chandler''
At least it wasn't named after the same character from 'Friends'...
People might have worried that the software would take after the character... get a bit bloated and be a bit sarcastic. :)